[M3devel] CM3 Release Engineering and Feedback

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:35:41PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
> 
> >On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 02:38:06PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> >>>What are these DCVS packages?
> >>
> >>A distributed version of CVS. It's already available, but I'd like
> >>to add some or all of the M3 packages to CM3. The distribution part
> >>is mainly based on an extended CVSup. There were more interesting
> >>features added to CVS like snapshots and changesets, too.
> >
> >It seems that migration to DCVS might be easier than migration to
> >monotone or svn or ...
> 
> It wasn't my intention to suggest such a migration, nor would I
> recommend it. I still think CVS is sufficient for our requirements,
> but if developers want something newer or better we should try Subversion
> or Perforce or indeed one of the distributed tools like git or
> mercurial etc. Though I don't really see the advantages of such
> a tool for our use.

If I thought CVS wsa great, I'd be using it for my own stuff.  I'm not.  
I'm using monotone.

> 
> Migration would be easy though, as DCVS is only an extension of CVS,
> so the actual database does not need to be changed, except for the
> administrative data.

That's the one (and prossibly only) advantage of DVCS.

-- hendrik